Directed/Edited by
Nathan Karamanski

Camera/Sound
Jeremiah D. Nickerson

An experimental performance film conceived 1 hour before a concert at The Historic Melody Inn, Downtown Indianapolis.

Grey Granite and El Carnicero’s journey to Pixelated Lazer Face Bass Monster continues with second single “Turn It On” featuring Oreo Jones:

Picking up where “Not A Robot” left off, Grey Granite and El Carnicero roll out their second singe from Pixelated Lazer Face Bass Monster “Turn It On” featuring Heavy Gunner Oreo Jones. “Turn It On” is a pure party jam with a bouncy beat and psychedelic synths that compels the listener to have a good time and dance. Both Grey and Oreo bring their spit game on this one. Grey is at home rhyming about his love of High Life, women and parties. And Oreo doesn’t care because he “ain’t got no underwear.” Pixelated Lazer Face Bass Monster is coming this summer!

Over the past couple of years, Grey Granite has consistently distinguished himself from other vocalists by perpetually reinventing his style and jumping on anything that catches his interest. Starting with his legendary Amplifies the Killers project to his recent immaculate album Lust Poisons Pride, Grey has been one of the few artists in the Midwest to successfully go left and follow his sonic dreams. His creativity has recently garnered the support of Kick Kick Snare, Ruby Hornet, Loyal KNG, Noise Porn, Nuvo, and Musical Family Tree and several other media outlets. Now with his partner J. Brookinz, the duo have launched Heavy Gun Recordings and are beginning the next portion of their journey.

The man behind the crazy production on PLFBM is the one an only El Carnicero. El Carnicero aka the Butcher aka Aaron Berg has been solidifying his name as master of heavy bass for the past several years. In the mid 2000s as grime was making it’s way across the Atlantic to the States, El Carnicero teamed up with Philly based producers Starkey and Dev79 to form the now infamous Slit Jockey Records. In the past, the Butcher has produced tracks for Doodlebug of Digable Planets, Warrior Queen, and RikoDan of the Roll Deep Crew. Beyond his recent work with Grey, Aaron is currently working on a new project with New York rapper Elucid entitled CapricornOne.

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DL: This is some form of a concept album, would you agree?
GG: No. Not at all.
JB: I thought it was.
GG: What’s the concept?
JB: (laughs) I’m waitin’ on you to tell me.
DL: So maybe you’re not trying to tell a specific story through a series of songs, but rather guide the listener through a range of emotions?
GG: (looking at the floor, scratching his head) Yea. It’s like, in talking with a dude he’ll tell me about some shit going on in his life. And I’m like “Damn. This story needs to be told.” The songs aren’t about any one person in particular, but really just feelings we can all connect to.

Photos By:  Kayla Houssian

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http://www.zaptownmag.com/2010/04/grey-granite-j-brookinz-present-lust-poisons-pride

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Grey Granite and J. Brookinz drop FREEMix of “Colorful Mask” featuring alpha.live:

In February, Grey Granite and J. Brookinz unveiled their foray into electropop, Lust Poisons Pride, and garnered quite a bit of attention from media outlets such as: Sound Verite, Loyal KNG, The Musical Family Tree, Bringing Down the Band, Metromix Indianapolis, and Nuvo. Carrying on from the album’s initial success, the Heavy Gun duo has teamed up with the almighty emcee, alpha.live, for a remix of “Colorful Mask” from LPP.  This is the first time that these three have collaborated since the infamous original version of “The Bar”.  To make the release even sweeter, Heavy Gun Recordings is giving it to you for FREE!

Artwork by Ryan Pelaez and Donald Burlock.

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Btam in the studio looking a porn

The first song I recorded for Lust Poisons Pride was Lay You Down. For years I have been recording hip hop songs in the closet of one of my closest friends BTAM and for years he was living in the same very comfortable apartment. But, when the time came to record the first song on LPP he had moved out of that apartment and back in with his Mom and Pops to save some money and it was always a full house over there. I would go over to this his extremely cramp room  pretty late at night after work and record in his closet while he worked the boards aka Pro Tools and a Mini Mac.

 When I went into the booth aka closet that night with a way crazy ass beat that I made (ps I am not suppose to play the role of producer that’s brookinz job) and even more way crazy lyrics and singing I was really unsure if he would take me serious and record me. There have been MANY fights in the studio and I didn’t expect any different this time especially. Sometimes Btam doesn’t get what I am trying to do until its all done. Sometimes I don’t get that what I’m doing doesn’t work until its all done and exhausted Btam say, “I told you so”. This time I was pretty unsure of how things would go…

 For weeks I had the song Lay You Down stuck in my head, and it played over and over and over and I’m not taking about how it would and should sound when I had it all done. I was hearing a fully finished mixed and mastered song. I wasn’t sure if I could get Btam to go along with me far enough to get to that point or if I would get shot down with the opening hum of “I wanna Lay You Down…” I remember saying, “Btam just trust me on this one, its going to be different- way different”. And he was down- To my surprise he was into it!

 Shortly after that song was recorded Btam moved out and into his own place and things ran smoothly. Btam put in really late hours recording the songs on Lust Poisons Pride. Some songs he would have to record more than once, if I didn’t like the way something came out I would go back in and do it over. Btam has a really good ear and he’s a technical genius when it comes to audio. I really wish I could pay him what he deserves for the work he has put in on Lust Poisons Pride. One day- SOON.

 SIDENOTE: We recoded another song that night called “All Clear” that didn’t make the cut. In fact we recorded it several times and it got cut seconds before we sent the final version to the distributor.

Thank You Btam, Lust Poisons Pride would not have been made without you.

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